SACRAMENTO - Eight conditional Enterprise Zones have been established by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in an attempt to revitaliz...

SAN DIEGO - The young attorney had just been handed an unwelcomed decision by a judicial referee, and went ballistic. ...

Forum Column - By Brad Sherman - The U.S. needs to establish legal succession guidelines in the event that a candidate, presid...

Industry Watch - By Fiona Smith - SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran water attorney Hamilton "Hal" Candee is leaving the Natural Resource...

LOS ANGELES - If voters approve Proposition S on Tuesday's primary ballot, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo will have effectivel...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - A group of eight land-use attorneys has left Bingham McCutchen for Sheppard Mullin Richter ...

Skadden and Yahoo found themselves on the other end of a big deal last week when Microsoft Corp. made its unsolicited $44.6 bi...

WASHINGTON - Efforts in Congress to give federal judges a major pay raise could be under threat because of an amendment to the...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Industry Watch - With Honors

Industry Watch - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's la...

Judge Kevin R. Murphy's athletic ability put him on a worldly path, and his father's law background put him on a career path. ...

Los Angeles Judge Dan Lowenthal focuses on maintaining a 'user-friendly' court that provides tailor-made justice for those who...

Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Kathy Ta is part of the new wave of hiring in the office. District Attorney Steve ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a flurry of appointments to the bench late last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may have spiced up some of...

Employment Column - By John T. Hansen - A 9th Circuit ruling on workers with disabilities provides new, clear guidelines for e...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco Tuesday limited the number of consumers who can participate in a major class ...

STANFORD - Lawrence Lessig, one of the nation's leading copyright experts, gave what was billed as his "Last Free Culture Spee...

LOS ANGELES - Business litigator George Stephan, who successfully defended the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim two years ago in ...

LOS ANGELES - For years, two rival developers that build student housing at the University of Southern California were engaged...

Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - Jack Goldsmith's "The Terror Presidency" chronicles the role of the little-known Office of ...

Randy L. Wu is leaving his post as general counsel of the California Public Utilities Commission, the agency announced Thursda...

Forum Column - By Daniel Lee Jacobson - If Californians want to change how they select Electoral College delegates, they will ...

It's all about weighing the interests for mediator Greg David Derin, who has turned 30 years practicing business and entertain...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Tubach will take over today as managing partner of O'Melveny & Myers' San Francisco office. The ci...

Edwin Leroy "Roy" Tolles, a founding partner of Los Angeles' Munger Tolles & Olson whose work helped make the firm a natio...

SAN JOSE - In the latest phase of a long-running patent-infringement lawsuit pitting Rambus against several memory chip manufa...

Joan Huang's strange and trying odyssey through the criminal justice system came to an end last Friday when a federal jury acq...

SAN FRANCISCO - Newly installed U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello may not play a role in his unit's most high-profile case - th...

At 82, Guido Saveri is still considered one of the top antitrust plaintiffs' attorneys in the country. Last fall, the antitrus...